The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-07 00:00:00

TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE DORCHESTER VICTIMS' FUND, Anti to the Friends of JUSTICE AND HUMANITY. . . APUBI:id MEETING will he held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on WimsEsDAY, May 9, to receive a Report from the Dorchester Committee on th e case of the Dorchester Labourers, in which a Plan will be proposed fur appropriating the Funds collec t ed on their behalf, and measures submitted to enable the Committee to carry that Plan into full effect. Th oma s Wakley, F.sq., M. P., will take the Chair at Eight o'clock. George Loveless, and James Brine, will be present and address the Meeting. By order of the Dorchester Committee, R. H ARTWELL, Hon. Sec. Committee Room, Turk's Head, King - street, Holborn, April 26. _ _ The publication of Tug SUN NRWSPAPER commenced this day _ . at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. ,__ ...,..,;; ~,,:.&- ~.L c :,,,-,.: c. e4 ... : . ~..,* ,-......, c . 5 -..,4 , -,....--N, ~,,,,,,,,, , , i „......, 4 . , . ~, ~-- -, 'Y ir 7 , ...,0,3%. [t . A.. t: •. , tiF ‘i.) s l: ''' k. l / 4 .... r; , -40, F A 7,,.., ,% 3i ,:k : e.- a 4L -321 1 5=m-f, -, --.....,-, ,:::: iteme WITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1838. It is high time that the Church-rate Abolition Society, whiCh is to hold a Meeting at the London Tavern to-morrow, should bestir themselves. Unless the Dissenters mean at once to lie down and suffer the Churchmen to trad on them, or patiently hold open their ?s ockets to the bird-limed fingers of the Clergy, they nius,: now speak out boldly. Wh a t eve r may be the will of the Ministers, and we have never suspected them of being indisposed to the Dissenters, it is p.LnfectlY clear that they have tidt the power to relieve thenip The House of Lords, and the large minority of the nous.? of Commons, are, in truth, the masters of the Government; and they will not allow the Ministers, as Sir ROBERT PE,7I, stated at the dinner at the Goldsmiths' Hall, to do a sL:gie thing which they dislike. That such a situation is honourable to the Ministry we will not aver ; but it is clear that, constituted as the House of Lords, and composed as the House of Commons is, the Ministeis cannot help themselves, and cannot help the Dissenters. The majority of the House of Lords is made up of Bishops and tit sir peculiar friends ; and the minority of the Commons, if not the mere representatives of the clergy, are bound to the Church body and soul. Now the clergy, who thus .command the majority in one House, and the large roinority in the other, are one and all decidedly opposed to every measure for the re lief of the Dissenters. Sir Ite IBERT INGLIs is their elected champion ; he expresses t;te concentrated es sence of their opinions, and he declares' that the Church rates, though levied at the discretion of Churchwardens, and complained of chiefly in towns where they are paid out of men's daily earnings or daily profits, are a tax on property subject to which the Dissenters have acquired their estates. He looks on Church-rates, therefore, and all the Clergy look on them, as the pro perty of the Church, and he insinuates, what the Herald boldly asserts, that the Dissenters are dishonest men, and seek to commit robbery. The Church men, on the one side, cry robbery, and the Dissenters on the other cry plunder,. and the Churchmen can not now give up their prey without tacitly admitting that they are depredators, and that they have—a com mon trick of swindlers—raised a great outcry against other men in order to conceal their own wrong doing. As they have the power, therefore, the Dissenters cannot rationally indulge the smallest hope of relief, unless they can raise up a strong public opinion in their favour. The abuse of the Tory prints should stimulate their zeal. " Clamorous Dissenters," " Political Dissenters," " despoilers of the Church" are amonJst the mildest epithets applied to them, and, if they do not now exert themselves, they will not only have an unjust burden fixed on them for ever, but they will acknowledge by a patient submission to that con tuoiely which is heaped on pickpockets, that they have unjustly . wished to take the property of their neighbours. Th ere great inconsistency in the arguments of their antagelibts. The Dissenters ask to be relieved from an impose to which they conscientiously object. " No," say the ';"ories, " it does not fall on you alone ; it falls on all the la Tided property of the kingdom." " Exonerate our prorrtY" reply the Dissenters, " and levy the rates exclusively on property held by Church men." " Not so," say di,' Churchmen, " for that would be a bounty on dissent, and the true Church would be deserted." Whether lamb drank at the stream above or below the wolf, ti.'e rapacious beast considered that the mild innocent trouble..l the water, and in like manner, the Dissenters must pay both to insure to the Church their own contributions, and to keep L' i llurch" men willing to pay. Sometimes the Dissenters are re proached with the smallness of the rate ; but the less it is in amount the more easily might it be spared, and the less is the esteem in which, according to the ad• vocates of the rate, the Church is held by its own congregations, if they would desert it to be relieved of the rate. The Church is described in all the Tory publica tions of the day as the greatest blessing which the land enjoys. Its very existence is said to be a master stroke of • policy. But according to the argument by which the Dissenters exclusively must not be re lieved from Church-rates, this invaluable blessing —this sublime essence of human wisdom—is worth about three-pence in the pound of the property of the country. At the same time the Church which, in fact, is estimated so cheaply, commands the lip attachment (may we call it hypocritical ?) of our Statesmen of all parties. They absolutely overflow with expressions of faithful and devoted love. Every thing- else, including what is honestly due to the people, is sacrificed to the necessity of preserving the Church ; and the Clergy being thus continually flattered by Par liamentary orators, are naturally arrogant and rapa cious. Such being their dispositions; and their power,in consequence of the submission of Statesmen of all parties, being overwhelming in the Senate, the Dissenters can ~, ply obtain redress by directing public opinion against the Church. They have hitherto treated it with too much respect ; ir. stands forth now as their avowed oppressor, and must he resisted. It is consistent, we are aware, with Christian precepts to give the coat to him who has taken the Dissenter's cloak ; but it is not what the Church does; and the Dissenters should in their case rather follow its example than its precepts. The Glasgow Argus, the statements in which arc copied by the Spectator, gives the following as the average prices of wheat during the last five years :- 1833 April October 1834 April October 05 April October 1836 )cpril 0, 'ober 1837 Aprt Octobc , " 1838 April ‘• The figures show," says the Spectator, " that the im provements in agriculture have not, as yet, counteracted the effects of deficient havests and increased demand." Since 1833 there can, sve presume, be no doubt that Population arid commerce have on the whole increased, and that the business of the country has increased. Looking, however, to the destruction of ban k p a p er in in the United States since 1833, and to the ,conduct of the Bank of England in limitina its issues, there may be some doubts, we apprehend, whether the cur vency be as abundant now as it was in 1833, 1834, 1835, and in the beginning of 1836. But we all know that corn and currency have a close relation to each other, and that we cannot tell what we really give for a quarter of corn, unless we also know the precise value of a 5/. note. It may be, then, that 575. 10d. the average price of wheat in the last mouth, is equal to SOs. in 1835, or to 90s. at the time of passing the last Corn-law. Our own impression is, that the price of wheat already verges to !he famine height, and that the complaints we hear of want of employment, for money, arise from its being impossible with our present prices of corn, and the present prices of other goods, to manufacture to advantage. Hence the general slack ness of trade ; the dulness of enterprise ; and a want of means to invest capital with a profit. In the Number of the " London and Vv - estminster Review," published last week, there is a very sensible business-like article on the important question of Post office Reform, suggested by Mr. ROWLAND HILL's pamphlets, and the evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on postage. The Reviewer does not overlay the question with abstruse or abstract reasoning ; he does not attempt to put the arguments employed in favour of a reduction of the present rate of postage in a new form ; but he does what we like much better—he gives us the pith of all the evidence which has been taken since the Hon. Member for Greenock first declared himself the uncompromising opponent of all abuses in the Post-office Establishment. Of the pernicious effects of the present exorbitant rate of postage, there appears to be a general, settled conviction, among all persons who have paid the least regard to the subject. The merchant exclaims against it as ruinous to trade—the divine as a check upon the virtuous intercourse of families—as fatal to the morality of the youthfu; and the inexperienced, whom it often deprives of the kind admonition of parents, the advice of virtuous friends, and the virtue-inspiring solace of fraternal commiseration and endearment. As the latter view of the question cannot be regarded as the least im portant by a Christian community, we shall quote an extract from the letter of a respectable clergyman, com mented upon by the Reviewer by way of illustration : " One of the best securities for good conduct, where young people have been well brought up, is the preservation of home feelings in all their freshness, and the nurturing and cherish ing of all the pure and wholesome influences that belong to the family relations. Give me a girl who left the parent's roof pure, and as long as she writes freely to her mother, I shall searcely fear for her virtue. Give me a youth who finds a pleasure in devoting a spare half-hour in the evening to the sister whom he has left behind him, and though he be a hun dred raffles off, there is a chain upon him, which, if it does not hold him back from evil, will check him in the pursuit of it. Now, when one considers the field to which these observations refer, the immense scale upon which the enormous tax upon letters is working mischief, in separating the nearest friends, and insulating, during the most critical period of life, those who want every help to strengthen them against temptation, I really feel that the economical part of the question is quite superseded by the moral part ; and Gun if the million and a half of revenue were sacrificed, the gain would be immense. Nobody hates more than I do the common outcry against tax ation. As a nation, we do not pay dearly for our social com forts and blessings • on the contrary, they would be cheaply purchased if we had much more to pay for them. But it is unwise, nay, I must say it is unchristian, for a Legislature to say to a whole people, ' You . shall speak to your friends, or hear from them, only through the state-trumpet,' and at the same time to take for every message it conveys, a sum im mensely greater than the cost of transmission." To show that the opinions so beautifully expressed in this extract are not idle assumptions of a questionable fact, we take the following from the evidence of a Manchester manufacturer : " Being short of labour some time since, we imported (the first experiment of the kind) a number of labourers from Bled low, Bucks. One of them naturally and properly wrote to his father, announcing his arrival and comfortable establishment. His father replied that he was happy to hear of his well doing but that his letter had cost a shilling, and that he must aware that this was a sum he could not pay twice. To a man earning 6s. or 7s. weekly the present rate of postage is pro hibitory, and also cruel, because, but for Government meddling, it seems that the poor —that is, the great bulk of the population—might enjoy the pleasure, convenience, and consolation of communicating with absent relatives, as readily as the rich now do." Several other merchants and manufacturers gave si milar testimony with respect to the poor people in their employment. The postage of a single letter from hi 6 dearest friend would cost a working man more, per haps, than a dav's wages, and that he was in most cases quite unable to afford. A moment's reflection must convince any person of the baneful effect of this compulsory estrangement from parents and relatives upon the morality, and consequently upon the happi ness, of the lower classes. _ . No tax could operate more injuriously upon busi ness than a high rate of postage, and therefore we are not surprised to find the whole commercial world united in favour of a large reduction of the duty. Mr. T. LAMIE MURRAY, the enterprising founder of the New National Loan Fund and Life Insurance Society, assured the Committee that so convinced was he of the injurious effect to trade and general intercourse by letter, of the present rate of postage, that if he had to farm the Post-office revenue at a cost of a half a million more than its present net receipts, the very first step he ‘7001.1 take would be to establish an universal penny rate. To show the general impression of commercial men with regard to the expense of postage, Mr. DILLON, of the House of Morrison and Company, read to the Committee the following extracts from letters which lie had himself received in the way of business, in the course of a few months :-- " The first is a letter, dated Shrewsbury, 27th May, 1837 : Be good enough to pass the above draft for 201. to my credit, and let some one call at —, St, Paul's Church-yard, to acknowledge the receipt : our object is to save the post age.' The second is a letter dated St Austell , 31 st Dec., 1837 : Will you be kind enough to caase the order on the other side to be delivered to —, Cheapside : the amount would not be worth a postage to them.' The third is Ton bridge, 3d July, 1837, with a cheque Please indorse the cheque,' intending this as a receipt, to save the necessity of an acknowledgment.' The fourth is a letter dated Cambridge, Ist June, 1837. relative to a bill sent for acceptance, 1481. 13s. 9d. The acceptor adds, I had a parcel from you yesterday ; why not save me postage ?' The fifth is a letter dated Marylebone, Ist June, 1837: Mr. E. M. requests me to say that you may draw on him, to be accepted by me by procuration of Mr. M. in order to save the expense and trouble of sending the bill to ---.' The sixth is a letter dated Disc., 2d June, 1837—' When you send to me have the good ness to send me an account of Cr. goods, 9/ 94. 3d., as I cannot make it correct.' The seventh is dated Belfast, 16th June, 1837—` Annexed we hand you a bank order for 232/. 10s. to settle as above. You will please retire our bill to you, due on the 20th, and please lay it aside until an opportunity offers of returning it free of postage.' The next is dated Jer sey, 12th June, 1837—' The enclosed 301. you will please get accepted immediately, and placed to the credit of our ac count. In sending the acknowledgement please include ow last invoice ; as also our statement of account, all on a single sheet of paper, to save double postage.' The last I shall ad duce is dated Liverpool, Ist Feb., 1837—` If you can forward me an acknowledgment free, well; if not, do not put me to expence, as I have no eleven-pence; to spare for the dead sca of the Exchequer.' " The same gentleman illustrates, by the following sim ple but striking example, the mischievous effect of a high rate of postage as regards the commerce between the great capitals of England and Scotland : " A case occurs to me which will show the oppressive nature of the postage between London and Edinburgh ; for example, I have a bill here upon Edinburgh for 251., and if that were our only transaction, or if it were the transaction of a small tradesman, having no other, he must send that bill to a banker 1;4 Edinburgh, which would be a double postage ; he would receive another bill upon London in exchange, which would he another double postage, and he is bound, by the course of business, to send a letter of advice ; that would be five postages of Is. 11d. each, incurred upon a two-months' bill of 251. In all probability there would be a sixth postage, in acknowledgment to the banker. This amounts to more upon a two months' bill of 25/. than the discount of the bill for the t'rne." As we propose returning to this subject we pur posely avoid all reference to the systems of smuggling so universally adopted by men in business, to avoid an expense which the profits of their trade will not suffer them to incur. Before we had looked into the mass of evidence published by the Committee, we had not the remotest conception of the illimitable extent to which smuggling prevails, even among our most re spectabiE merchants, publishers, brokers, manu fac:tirers, and traders of every class. The per sons engaged in this practice of evading the law, and even those who are instrumental in the hands of °diets for conducting its evasion, are not ashamed of it themselves, nor does it cast the slightest stain upon their moral character. The Reviewer, however, looking with the eye of a States man to its prevalence, thus comments upon it : " However the universality of the practice and the badness of existing laws may excuse it, our Legislators and Governors should bear it mina that this vice, for the existence of which the supporters of the bad laws make themselves responsible, bears the aspect each of them fraught with measureless evil— it is a universal contemning of authority—it is a habitual vio lation of law, and it is an education in fraud which spreads like a leprosy through every rank and to every member of the community." In the main we approve of the views of the Reviewer with respect to the efficacy of Mr ROWLAND HILL'S plan ; but we do not go so far as to contend " that no reduction short of a penny postage" will carry out the principle of that plan, so as to be crowned with complete suc cess. A two-penny, or even a three-penny postage not payable in advance, would as far put an end to smuggling as if the general rate was fixed at a penny. Suppose the rates of postage fixed during the reign of CHARLES the Second were re-established? They are as follows Miles. Letter not exceeding 1 sheet, to or from any place not exceeding ---- 2 sheets 1 sheet 2 sheets 1 sheet from London to Berwick ... 3d. • from London to Dublin ... 6d. When these rates were established, there were no Macadamized roads—no steamers—no railway trains travelling at the rate of from twenty so thirty miles an hour. Neither were there such numbers of letters as to make the farming of the Post-office a lucrative speculation. We grant that money has increased since then ; but when we look to the improvements in roads, in conveyances, in general intelligence, and in our commercial relations at home and abroad, we are astonished at the disproportion between the past and the present rates of postage. It is impossible that a large reduction can be much longer refused ; for no plea about hazarding a portion of the Revenue can be presumed equally cogent with Ministers as a regard for the moral feelings of a whole nation. If all we ask can not be at once conceded without great danger, we will thankfully accept a part. If we cannot have a penny postage, we will acknowledge with gratitude the kind intentions of the Ministry in reducing the rate to two pence, or even three-pence. Dr. CHALMERS has undertaken to demonstrate, on those common and universal principles of human nature which are the foundations of all exchange, that free exchange, which all modern experience has proved to be the only exchange which is or can be mutually beneficial in supplying society with food and s ta n clothing, str u i e s t i o insufficient n. Christianity t o procure a u oftohrfsupplyotohidte. is necessary e w s r y ill n otto givemn as not e n existence, like ;Daoßonf Doctor) there fore But Co t rh % )i i it o makes exish exists assertion pot ? Those hehungrycon in whom the sumerssay desire for theyeannot get enough of it on reasonable terms ? No, says the Doctor, the people do not want our instruction ; they do not appreciate it; they w ill no t buy it ; they hav e no taste for it. The producers of the commodity, or those who have it stored up for sale, are the persons who loudly assert that there is no effective demand for it ; and, therefore, they call on the Government to pay them for supplying it to the people. The buyers are not allowed to judge of their own wants, but the sellers in sist on judging for them. This principle is common to those zealous persons who endeavour to make the people consume reli g ious instruction, (to preserve the economic language in which Dr. CttALmEtts dis cusses Christianity), by voluntarily building and endowing Churches, or who supplicate rich men for the means, and to those who, like Dr. CHA L NIERS, insist on the State taxing the whole na tion, to pay for the religious instruction which the people will not freely and voluntarily buy. So ex pressed and explained, the voluntaryism ab extra, as distinguished from the voluntaryism ab infra, on which Dr. CHALMERS expatiated on Tuesday for about three quarters of an hour, was justly described as co. incident with a compulsory endowment by the State. Both proceed on the pr:neiple in common, that the consumers are not capable of judging for themselves, and are unwilling to buy religious instruction ; and the one begs a bounty from benevolence to encou rage a supply, and the other boldly insists on the State providing it. The great difference betwixt the two is, that the consumers may reject or cast aside with disdain that which benevolence offers ; but they must pay for that which is supplied by the State, though they may see by the marks, and know by ex per:ence, that it is Brummagem ware. Both, however, proceed on the meddling principle, which was formerly the foundation of all bounties, and restrictions on par ticular branches of commerce, and which denied to individuals the right of private judgments in the dis posal and employment of their labour and capital. As the meddling system has been partially superseded in commerce with great advantage by that free trade system which Dr. CHALMERS admires, it ought to be inferred that the meddling system in supplying reli gious instruction is equally as injurious as in supplying corn. The priesthood, however, like the landlords, over-estimate the value of their produce, and neither will rely on the unfettered judgment of their customers to give them an adequate price for their commodities. An Edinburgh paper informs us that a great meeting took place at that city on -Tuesday to petition Parliament for endowment ; and while Dr. CHALMERS is stirring up the population here to take the same course, a deputation from the anti-endowment party in Scotland is making a successful a ppeal to the inhabitants of our commercial and manufacturing cities in the north. This evidence of the great interest at present taken in the question of a National Church will, we hope, suffice as an excuse for our referring so much the to verythe i h n j e even ()f ei t v o i t l l i ) b o e s r e ty w , li who the right not aware that - v ate judgment, is involved in the discussion. In Ger manyare calling tine pri es t s t o th e ir aid, and i o the d their i ns t ruct i onras Dr. cALu.Nrf prie sts Eits e took care to impre ss on hi s despots willingly offer r auditors, last i Tuesday, as a most useful auxiliary to Tory despotism. • We have advices from Constantinople of the 6th ult., and from Athens of a date six days later. The SULTAN has abolished the office of Sadrazam, or Grand Vizier, and cre atedi the i European or p A dignity A of B as h V e ikil, or pm i i n er, its has been a ppointed. AKIFF PASHA has b een a g ain dismissed, through the in fluence of his old enemy, RESCHID assisted by llosnEFr PASHA, Pres ident of th e Imperial Council. The accounts from the Greek capital are uninteresting. The anniversary of the first outbreak of the Greek revolu tion was celebrated on the 25th of March with extraordi nary pomp. The KING headed the Procession through the city of Athens, and in the evening not only the capital, but the top; of the mountains were illuminated. Letters from Alexandria, of the 27th of March, an nounce another victory , obtained by IBRAHIM PASHA, over the Druses. The health of the Prince, however, declined so rapidly, that fears were entertained for his life. Let ters from Teheran, of the 7th of the same month, state that the &limes troops had been repulsed i n an attempt to storm Herat, and that without strong reinforcements the fortress was judged impregnable. The inhabitants of Osnaburg, in Hanover, have peti tioned the G rmanic Diet against the Lett ers P aten t of King ERNEST of the I st of November, abolishing the Con stitution of 1833. The petition, which extends over 105 folio pages, and is reported to be drawn up with singular clearness and alAity, is expected to create a great stir among the Constitutional States of Germany. The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday have been re ceived. Those of Saturday have not yet arrived, but are momentarily expected. The Chamber of Deputies is still engaged with the Five per Cents. question, which is likely to eccupy it for several days. The Toulonnais has the fol lowing news from Algiers, bearing date the 21st ult. " The troops of the Emir have had a very sanguinary conflict at the defile called the Iron Gate, celebrated by the combats that have taken place there, whenever the Bey of Constantine wished to make an excur sion into tha province of Titteri, or that an attack was attempted against him. The fate of the armies always depended on the Sheik of Biben, who commands the most powerful tribe in the country—that of Beni Abhis, in whose territory the Irongate is. The friends of AbdelKader affirm that his General has passed through that difficult defile. Others affirm, on the contrary, that he has retreated. It is difficult to know what has really passed. We do not yet know positively whether Blidah has been occupied by our soldiers, but the movements of troops give reason to suppose that the important operation has taken place." The defeat of NEGRI by ESPARTERO in the vicinity of Burgos is confirmed, or rather reiterated, in these Journals. Two hundred Carlist officers are stated to have been made priuoners. NEGRI'S baud is reduced to 1,000 men, the majority of whom are without arms. A mysterious young man, calling himself FERDINAND NAPOLEON, has been seized by the pone,: on the French frontier. As the Royal birth-day addresses are the subject of some curious remarks in one of these Journals, it may be allowed us, though at the eleventh hour, to give our opinion of them, The addresses of the Ambassadors and Peers of France are comtnon-place affairs. Not so the address of the Chamber of Deputies. How the courtiers must have smiled, as M, DUPIN gravely pronounced the Cham ber's settlement of the question of the sex and rank of an unborn babe That will be ancther day of happiness for your Royal house, and of joy fur the nation, on which will be born a son to the heir of the Crown, the perpetuity of which is the object of our wishes, Instructed, Sire, by the examples of yourself, and the Prince, his father, this third King of our stew dynasty will find rendered easy to hint that which, in the este b l ishment of a solid Constitutional Government, has been to us the so urce of painful and arduous struggles. The KING was resolved not to be outdone in unveiling tl4e mysteries of futurity by his faithful Deputies. As they had felt it to be their duty to disclose to him the disposi tion of the people of France, under the third King of his dynasty, his MAiRsTY wits graciously pleased to inform them in what way the third Aing and his remotest de scendants would conduct themselves 1— My descendants will ever be faithful to those national sentiments which have been the rule of my conduct throughout my life. They will render themselves worthy of the will of the nation which called me to the throne. They will, like me, endeavour to smother all animosities, and rally all opinions round the one great interest, which ought to prevail over all others, that of the country and the public welfare. France is a happy country in possessing a King and re presentatives in all respects so worthy of each other. " Sire, we will tell you what France will be under the sway of your unborn grandson," shout the Deputies, in the ful ness of their loyal enthusiasm. " Gentlemen," responds the KING, " though that grandson is unborn, I will gladden your hearts by telling you what sort of a King he will snake." In conclusion we award his MAJESTY the praise of playing the seer much better than M. DUPIN, The Brussels Papers, received this morning, censure the conduct of the Government in submitting the Lux emburg question to a Secret Committee of the whole Chamber of Deputies. This rage for premature pub licity is not only ridiculous but dangerous. It is sin gular how very little our liberal continental contemporaries know about the regular and well regulated functions of Government. A letter from Bayonne, of the 28th of April, says, "Positive informa. tion, received from St. Jean de Luz, says that Munagorri had arrived there. It is even said that he has secretly entered our city." The Madrid Journals are missing, and those from Bayonne do not come on Thursday ; consequently we are without news from the Penin sula. According to a private letter in the Quotidienne, the Infant Don Se. Bastian will fix his residence at Toulouse, where a house is already pre pared for him. Before he left Madrid, says the same letter, the Prince received three and a half millions of reals, the produce of the sale of a stud which he possessed in La Mancha,—Le Commerce. Lougoso, APRIL O.—The Count of Luchana has inspected the fortress of Villanueva de Mina. It is there that he will place his re. serve; after which he will march to Estella by the Vally ; all the out lets of which are occupied by our troops. Three thousand men have been detached from the main body of the army for Reynosa; they are to act in concert with, and, if necessary, reinforce Iriarte, who is still in pur. suit of Negri; the latter is manzeuvring in the direction of Galicia, since he has lost all hope of penetrating into the Asturias. All the Carlist troops intended for the expedition left Estella on the 20th for Man clavia. It is affirmed that the Pretender will set out on the 25th. Only five or six thousand men, under Francisco Garcia, will remain in Navarre. Cabrera seems to be approaching the Ebro to facilitate the passage of that river by Don Carlos. On our part Alaix and Leon El Conde are preparing to dispute it. It is probable that there will soon be a battle. Arrests continue to be made at Estella. The committee appointed to examine the project of law on the Completion of the public monuments has not contented itself with approving the note of credit of 156,000 f. asked for the column of Boulogne, but proposed to add a sum of 60,000 francs for the exe. cution and placing of a statue of the Emperor, which will be nearly four meters high, and weigh 80,000 lbc—Constilutionna. FRENCH FUNDS. —rams, Malt 4. Ft•e per Cents.. 107 f. Ke, 103 f. 107 f. 93c 75c. 85e. Four per Cents., 101 f 9.5 e. three Her Cents., 80f. 75e. 85c. 75e. Bank Actions, 2,690 f. 2,700 f. lente ae Naples, loOf. 80c. Itonian Five per Cents., 103 W, Spanish Actives, 21,,, 99. Spanish Passives, 4%%. Belgian Loan, 103. Belgian Bank, 1,440 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. Haytian Loan, 495 f. EXCHMIGX tan LONDON. Or.e month, paper, •25f, 471,6 c..; money, .85f. 45e. Three months, paper. 251. 32y9e. money, —f, —e, LATEST PRICES, Five per Cents. 108 f, Three per Cents., 80f. 33c. Bank Actions, 27001, Romans' 103 W. Belgian Loan, 103. Belgian Bank, 1,440 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 22W. blaytian Loan, 485 f. Spanish Actives, 21%. Spanish Passives, 4%. TILE BUDGET; About the year 1760, flume said the public debt amounted to the fee-simple of the whole landed pro perty of the country—a sum so enormous that he affirmed it would destroy the national resources, and lead in no long period to bankruptcy and ruin. What would have been the astonishment of the philosopher if some ministering angel prescient of futurity had told him that in the year 1838 a Chancellor of the Exche quer of the name of Thomas Spring Rice, would bring forward a Budget, in which he would provide means for raising, by ordinary taxes, within the year, a sum amounting to one-half of that debt that was to crush the country—that the debt itself would be increased eight-fold—that the English, besides this enormous sum lent to their own Government, would lend million upon millions to other nations, with out receiving back either principal or interest— that, as a .matter of ordinary occurrence, they would spend ten millions in making a road from London to Liverpool, and twenty millions more i n ma ki n g a few other roads throughout the country ; and that after all this vast expenditure, money in the City of London would be so.plentiful, that the capitalists would not be able to find out means to dispose of it. The arch-sceptic would sooner have believed in any of the miracles recorded by Moses, than given the slightest credit to a tale so full of won der, and equalled only some of those recorded in the Arabian Nights. His wonder, however, would have been still increased, had he been told that all this was to be accomplished, not by treasures dug up from in exhaustible gold mines in Mexico or Peru, but by laying on taxes on articles of consumption, which at that period were little or not at all used, and by ma nufactures from a plant that but a few years before was known only by name.• In his time, the revenue raised by a tax on tobacco was little more than nomi nal. It now produces three millions and a half sterling yearly. In 1787, ten years after his death, malt produced a revenue of half a million ; in 1837, the gross amount was nearly six millions. Sugar and Tea together pro duced two millions—in 1837 they produced more than nine millions, and most other articles in proportion ; but the greatest revolution has been effected by the in troduction of an articleof f • by which foreign produce, the people arc cheaply clothed ; employment is found for a population more numerous than the whole of the manufacturing population in the time of flume ; and goods exported annually to the amount of twenty-five millions more than one-fourth of the whole National Debt in 1760. Whether this has been equally bene ficial to the morals of the people is another question ; but without it Mr. Spring Rice, or any Budget-maker now, would be sadly puzzled. AsPHALTE.—Perhap4 there IS 110 spot more fa vourable for the experiment of a bituminous layer than the short pub lic footpath by Chelsea Hospital. The cost would be trifling (a tem porary toll, too, might be put) and the ready concurrence of the autho rities in 4 1 ,1 4 n which afforded a prospect of removing the cji4tin . might be safely counted on. A t ompapy conflUent in the quality of its composition, cannot have a better opportunity of advancing their own interests and Coincidentally benOtting stip p4blie! BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SO- CIETY.-(THIS DAY.) The thirty.third Anniversary Meeting of this Society took place this day at Exeter l all. At an early hour the large room was crowded by amost respectable audience. On the platform we observed C. Lushington, Esq., M.P., E. Baines, Eiq., M.P., Sir C. E. Smith, R. Slaney, Esq., M.P., Revs. J. Sherman, J. Lpifchild, John Burnet, and Dr. Morison , G. Bennett, Esq., W. Allen, Esq., and a host of ministers and influential gentlemen of all denominations. At twelve o'clock, Lord J. Russm.t. (the Vice-President of this most valuable and importwat Society) took the Chair. The Noble Lord, (who was most cordially and enthusiastically cheered), in opening the business of the meeting, highly eulogised the Society, and sppke of the benefits it conferred upon the country by diffusing the influence of a scriptural education, thus promoting the present and eternal welfare of the population —(Cl.eers ) The Noble Lord also stated that her Majesty took a deep and favourable interest in the pro ceedings of the Society.—(Loud cheers.) From the report which was read by the Secretary, it appeared that the number of scholap received during the past year had been, girls, 450; boys, 752; and the total number received since the origin of the establishment, was near 50,000.—(Cheers.) The criminal returns for the last year showed that nearly 30,000 persons had been taken into custody who could neither read nor write, and as many who could but read and write imperfectly—(Hear, hear)—while only 6,500 possessed these necessary qualifications in any thing like au adequate degree.—( Hear, hear.) The Bishop of NORWICH moved the adoption of the Report, in an able speech, in which, incidentally alluding to the Church of England, he expressed his hope that all the Clergy of that Church would be brought to do their duty faithfully, and that all clerical absenteeism and sinecures be entirely abolished, sentiments which were greeted with tremendous and long-continued cheering. E. Beta es, ESQ., M.P., seconded the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously. R. SLANEY, ESQ, M.P., in moving the second resolution, dwelt strongly on the urgent necessity of diffusing useful and Scriptural information among the middle and lower classes. of the people who had lately been intrusted with the Parliamentary and municipal franchises.—(Cheers.) The resolution expressad the grati tude of the Society, for the munificent support of her Majesty the Queen. The Rev. J. LetecntLn (of Craven Chapel) seconded the resolution in a very eloquent address. The resolution was carried by acclamation. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, a liberal collection was made, and it was near five o'clock when the vast assembly se parat ed. '0 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—The names selected for the Military Enquiry are such as must give the greatest satisfaction and confidence, as it looks as if the Govern ment were tit last disposed to consider the faithful and arduous duties long performed by a meritorious class of officers; and it is hoped those who have served without having been on half-pay for their own con venience above thirty years, and who have been severely wounded, yet remaining only Captains of 1827, will be deemed worthy of some honoured mark and remuneration in the next Brevet. BELISARIUS. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MAY s. —Wind, N.N.E., fresh breezes.—Came down from the River and proceeded, the Camilla, Henley, from Jamaica ; Louisa Maria, Hamilton, from Pernambuco ; Black Cat, Chesser, from Lisbon ; Fortitude, Fowler, from Barbadoes ; Seraph, Robinson, from Richibucto. The Rapid schooner, from the Mediterranean, arrived yesterday with loss of an anchor and cable, has been again supplied, and remains. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind! N.E., fine and E.N.E., fine.—Sailed her Majesty's ship the Andromache, from Quebec; Asia, Gillies, from Madras and Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, MAY s.—Sailed the Bolina, Wickander, from Naples ; Carl Donna, Bohn, from Lisbon. FALMOUTH, MAY 4.—Wind, N., fresh breezes with rain. May 5. — Wind, N., fresh breezes and fine.—Arrived the Allihies, Hayes, from Oporto; Augustine, Lellers, from Rouch ; Emma, Snellson, from Cette short of water and provisions. Sailed the Hope packet, Lieut. Rees, from Madeira and Brazils ; Pomona, Asplit, from Rotterdam; James Hunt, M'Donald, from Antwerp ; the Gelrake packet, Lieut. Passing ham, from Halifax ; Tranen, Cook, from St. Übes ; Emma, Snellson, from Bremen. LIVERPOOL, May s.—Wind N. N. W., light.—Arrived the Blu cher, Heron, from Trinidad ; Sultana, from the Mediterranean ; Phce nix, Post, from Girgenti ; Emma, Stedman, from Rostock ; Caroline, Soderburg, from Wismar. Sailed the Queen Victoria, for St. Andrew's: Camoens, for Oporto; Caledonia, for New York; John, Porter, for Halifax ; Elizabeth, Moore, for St. Thomas's; Plato, for Boston; Prince Regent, for Demerara; Buoyant, for Gibraltar; Madison, for Virginia ; Pandora, for Barbadoes ; Penang, for Canton ; Bridget, for Africa; Thomas, for Montreal. DOVER, MAY 15.—Arrived off port the Queen Victoria, from Lisbon. ISLE or , WIORT, MAY 6.—Arrived off port the Janet, Wildridge, from Cadiz. DARTMOUTH, MAY 6.—Arrived the William Saunders, from Patras. GUERNSEY, MAY 4.—Arrived the Sophia, Cardiff, from Rio Janeiro; Sylph, Belin, from Lisbon ; Biene, Kelterer, from Rostock. JERSEY, MAY 4.—Arrived the Constant, Even, from Cette. BRISTOL, MAY 6.—Arrived the Queen Adelaide, from Lisbon. NEWPORT, May 4.—Arrived the Eliza Jane, Bowen, from Cadiz. CLYDE, MAY 4.—Arrived the Isabella, Hyndman, from Jamaica ; Euphemia, Cameron, from Demerara; King Henry, Dawson, from do. ; Wm. Tell, Catlin, from New Orleans. HULL, MAY 6.—Arrived the Proven, Axe!son, from Wyburg ; Aire, Haighs from Hamburg; Altona, Hembrough, from do.; Geo. Palmer, Jackson, from do. DUBLIN, May s.—Arrired the Emerald, Fletcher, from Bourdeaux. CORK, MAY 4.—Arrived the Marquis of Huntley, (transport) from London. McNTROSE, MAY 4.—Arrived the Rapid, Eman, from Memel. SIIIELDS, MAY 6.—Arrived the Wilbelmina, Ruth, from Stettin. Wzvmotrrn, MAY s.—The Durham, Clack, bound to Lynn, was driven on shore near the Castle last night, but it is expected will be got off. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. By accounts received this morning from the manufacturing districts, it appears that the trade at Leeds was rather better, Litt still dull and heavy, and sales were made rather at a loss; but in the latter part of the week several London and Irish buyers appeared in the market, and pur. chased freely. The London trade is more animated. Although it is a double post day, we have few arrivals this morning. Even Saturday's French mail is due, with several packets from the west ward, no doubt caused by the prevailing north-easterly winds. TIDE FUNDS. The British Market is inactive to the present hour, and Consols opened this morning at the leaving oil' prices of Saturday-93/i sellers for Money, and 934 for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 71 73 ; India Bonds, 79 81 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2041 205 ; India Stock, 2701 271. Spanish Active, 20 % to 3 A . with Coupons; Portuguese, 33 to % ; Three per Cents., 22 to 3. ; Brazilian, 76 to %; Mezican, 28 to 1 ; Colombian, '27 %to ; Belgian, 101 to ; Dutch, 54 N. The above prices are nominal. PRICES OF STOCKS THII Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. ...... 92 3 per C.mt. Cons 93 N, 3% per Cent 100"A, Ditto Red 100%% New 3% per Cent lOl a 4 New S per Cent... Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire Jan 5, 1860... .. Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860...... ........ 5-16 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 ........... - Jim. 5, 1870...„. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds lOl Ditto Account • Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Bonds .... ...... Ditto Account C , lumbian Bonds. Ditto Account CJlumbian Bonds, 1624 27% Ditto Account Dini,h Bonds ......,. 74% 54% Ditto Account Greek BonAs Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Boris, 5 per cent -- Ditto Account Ditto. 6 per cent. Ditto Account 28 1 i Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THI DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Store.... Ditto Bonds .. £0 ...i. South Sea Stock .... Old knnnitiQs i New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... Exch. Bills, 1:1,001 , 73 71 urn Ditto s4gl 7l 73 ()in. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial , Ditto Advertised — piTl Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ 205 Indla Steck for Account Consols for Account THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLoCh 1 Peruvians Bonds ....... ; Ditto A ccount — Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bon Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent 4 9 1,,, Ditto Account .... ..... 223 6 1,4 Pm- sian Bends Russian Bonds, 1822 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1 31 , ....... Ditto Account "), ,,s 3kli French, 5 per c e nt ..... ...I. —... ------ 4 KT CCM. --_—.. 3 per ccnt. .—....... Exchange '251.50 Dutch, 2I per cent 545, )4‘ Ditto Account ..... ...... 4% Ditto, t‘ per cent 49 3 i 74 'Ai Ditto Account — 3 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK ld. Per Sh are . Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (I ssue d a t 51. pm.) Pa 20 25V, Ditto St. John del Rey .. 0 Pi British Iron Company Edinburgh and Glasgow I , reat Western Railway Company 65 25 , ' ,i htlghton Railway Comtism' 8 UX London and Blackwall Railway Lyndon and Birmingham R a il way C ompany OO 6li 175 London and Southampton (New) Railway 4 26,4 • rinchestor and Birmingham Rai1way........ Asphalte, Claridge's Patent Do. Liverpool 1)o British 1 1 , 4, Do. Swiss Do. Itobinion HALF-PAST ONE. The accounts brought by the last French and English steamers from Alexandria, state the Exchanges as follows :—On London, 75 to .i, on Marsailles, 5.7 to 5.12; also, that a great quantity of specie has hem sent to Europe, most of the five-trances have been bought up . , atl t t th e guineas have been sold at 2i piastres each. The Phare of Bayonne, states that the King of tho Froteh will soon make a tour of the south of France, after the Chambers have closed, and will proceed direct for Bayonne, where two divisions of the army arc to be assembled. It is in agitation that these new troops are to be in cantonment on the other side of Anglet, the spot on which the ma. nceuvres are to take place. Letters have been received from Rio Janeiro this morning, but they are not of so late a date as those previously received. The same inactive spirit for speculation, both in the British and Ft,_ reign Markets, prevails as in the early part of the morning; but at one period Consols were rather looking up, and d one at 93 % for the Ac. count; since which they m Bi ay lls 73 be quoted at 934 ; at prese n t 93: ; Bank Stock 204 i; India Stock 270 i Money Pas.; ; Exchequer 71 prem. ; I n di a Bonds 80 prem. ; In the Foreign Market there is not a feature worth observation. Spanish Active, 2(11 20i, with Coup ons; partuve,e‘ 33}; Three per Cents., 221 ; Brazilian, 761; MeXioan, 24; Colombian, 271 28 ; Belgian, 1011 , Dutch Two.ftrLzt-flalf per Cents., 541 ; Spanish Passive,Deferred, Bi l the 4 ; e Market the chief op erat i on was Poloncean Shares, which 1 5 r came out this morning, and were done at 31 to 4 Premium—at present may be quoted at 2} to 3, prem.. Little doing in Railway Shares, Claridge's Asphalte, 141, prem ; Liverpool ditto, 2/, prem. ; Robinson's ditto, 1 prem, THREA' O'CLOCK Console for Account, 931 INNER TEMPLE, SATURDAY, MAY (IP 1838 . - The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday caPed to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Tem14,;4,---,-via., Percival Andree Picker, ing, Esq., James Heywood ; Esq., Joseph Gibbs, Esq Jamcs William Middleton BOrry 4 Esq,, k'ranois fiudy ar d , Esq Constantine Ta hot Crighton, Esq., Patrick Colqulmn, Esq., Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., John Riohard Farce, Esq., and William Talbot Nugent Patter_ son, Esq. -„, - EARL ST. V INCENT ' S LIBERALITY.-r.. - .--. XISZte was one point in Lord St . V incent's character, wbi . c4 1.. , ..0u11ar1y fitted him for commander-in-chief on our molt i,moortant stations ; he had no dis position to hoard y p h; is wia „., but always entertained his own office as Well ~. ibiclgti visitor s , w i t h the greatest lib era lity. This may 4 , pear to be a m a tt er of trivial importance; but, when rit!l:, wn,sidered, it ranks high as a public virtue. It promotes t i arwfmy, and maes people well acqu a i nted with each other time s to the honout t.tAiNg. greatly, at the s ame .. - . ...... 9f the country —groipn'sl;(e (11 .54 r (Km, ELECTION COMMITTEES• (THIS DAY.) HULL (Close of the proceedings.) The Committee mot this morning, purtuant to adjournment, at eleven o'clock. -- -- Mr. Hat said that considering the effect of the resolution of the Com mittee on Saturday, the Counsel for the petitioners found that the onlY votes they could bring under the notice of the Committee, were those which had been tendered at the election and refused. They found also that in that class there were more on the side of Sir Walter James than Mr. Wood, they would, therefore, give the Committee no further trouble. The consequence would be that the Committee would declare that Mr. Hutt and Sir Walter James, ought to be declared the sitting Mernbcrt. After some discussion as to the proper form of the resolutions, the Committee determined that Mr. Wilbeforce was not duly elected to serve in Parliament for the borough of Kingston-on-Hull ; that Mr. Hutt via , duly elected, and ought to have been returned as Member for Hul l ; that Sir W. James was duly elected ; and that neither the petition not the opposition to it was frivolous or vexatious. BEDFORD. The Committee met today at eleven o'clock, but, in consequtnee of the illness of Mr. Whitmore, one of the members, they were unable to proceed to business. The Chairman will report the fact to the Hous e to-night. After sitting an hour they adjourned till to-morrow. WATERFORD, The Committee met to-day, at twelve o'clock, when Mr. THESIGER said he had the honour of •appearing as Counsel to support the petition of Major Beresford. Before he opened his case, he begged to be allowed to return his sincere thanks to the Committee for the Indulgence they granted him in adjourning on Saturday, when he was so particularly engaged in a matter in which he was so personally in volved that he could not attend. Having returned thanks for the favour he would proceed to state the case it would be his duty to lay before the Committee on behalf of the petitioner. He had the honour to in form the Committee that the scrutiny had been abandoned, and n oti to that effect had been served on th e o th er s i de b y one o f t heir Irish agents who had mistaken his instructions. He was not authorised to give any such notice, but it having been given, the petitioner considered himself bound to abide by it. Much time would thus be saved, a! 'or. Barrow had been returned by a colourable majority of 170 votes- The only question which the Committee would have to determine wa s that of bribery. The petition complained, like most Irish ones, of in timidation ; but he did not think it would be necessary for bin' to give any evidence on that point ; if it had been necessary,he would have been able to prove that Major Beresford, the petitioner, an' his friends could not canvass the city in safety; he would bf ' ll proved the most violent language from the mouth of the Sitting ViOn r ber himself. For instance, he was in a situation to prove that the Hon. Member cried out " here come the b—y Beresfords—drivs them away," and other equally stro ng an d reprehensible expr essi.bns, so excited the populace that the petitioner and his frier.as were unahi' to continue the canvass. From his (Mr. T.'s) expel:lence on Irish Elec tion Committees, he was aware that such violence was exceedinglY common, and therefore he would not trouble the Committee with ant donee upon that subject. The whole case therefore resolved itself ~. into the single question of brib er y , an d he should be able to prove br- bery, not of the usual kind—not bribery committed in secrecy—not bri beryd committed through the means o f agents—but bribery openlY nersonaly committed by the Sitting Member himself. It would not "- necessary for him to go into many cases—he would only bring those un der the notice of the Committee, and when they had heard his evidenc e ' he felt certain that the Committee would have no hesitation in deela" big that the Honourable Member was disqualified from sitting 10 Parliament. According to the precedent of the Evesham Committee 1 if he only proved one case, M r. O'B r i en would be totally disrinali6 from retaining his seat. Th e fi rst was that of a poor freeman na rno l M'Clough, who voted for Mr. B arrow, i n 1835, under a promise free that gentleman that lie would obtain a situation for him, but that pc°' mise was forgot. At the late election Mr. M'Clough reminded t sit Barrow of the broken promi se, and that gentleman again renewed ci and pledged himself to perform if faithfully if th e voter aga i n suPP°rte him. Upon this pledge M'Cl oug h voted for the Hon. Member, alai( ugh that was against his own sentiments. In place of getting the situation , t" poor voter got no more than 10s. Another case he would prove wa s promise of 51. for a vote; and though it had never been paid, the law of the case was clear, and the promise was as much in law as if it had l ' ° ;" performed. And in one case h e would prove, that by dint of perseval a voter had actually got the sum of 51. for his vote. After explala iii ; the law of the case, th e L earned Gentleman proposed to put in a COPY of the poll-books, but Mr. AusrlN, for the sitting Member, opposed it, and the point " Is under consideration when our reporter left. PORTUGUESE LEGArr,'.ION. The undersigned Charge d'Affaires of her Most Faithful Majesty ann ounces to a ll Portugueso subjects resident in London, that th e oat h to t h e new Ceustitution of the N rtu. guesc Monarchy decreed by the Constituent Cortes, and sw ° ,_ r e to by her Maj es ty th e Q ueen on the 4th of April last, wi ll lu ., administered t o th em at t h e P ortuguese Legation, 51, n ake a r t street, Portman-square, on Wednesd a y next, the 9th ins t. '. 5 o'clock, p. m . ; f or w hi ch purpose the undersigned i nvites them to be present at this august ceremony. Chevalier REBELL° DE CARVALH°' London, May 5, 1838, RASH LEGISLATION. TV SUSPENSION OF THE POWER OF RECOVDR y OF SMALL DEBTS. (From the Pilot.) on its We have b e f ore a ll u d e d to a Bill that is now passing stages throu g h the [louse of Com mons , w hi c h appeared of the on the glance we h ave b een able to bestow on it, one er sta• most absurd and m i sc hi evous compilations that have yet nated from the co ll ect i ve w i s d om of the nation. ab sentee of the m os t cry i ng gr i evances entailed on us by an _.e sentee legislatur e ( an d t h ey are many), is, the inability P ut possess to ch ec k or contro l t h e l aws which are passed for o guidance and di rect i on . W e are, indeed, oftentimes ignora nt of the law until it actua ll y presses us with the tangibility o f its grasp. We insert to-day an ex t ract f rom this Bill, to show the power that is sought by it s enactments to be conferred on ue u 9, irresponsible body, who are nominated or dismissed by th e will of the Lord Lieutenant. We know not how long Lord Mulgrave may be permitte d to remain with us, acid we, therefore, say that no such powers as this Bill confers ought to be permitted to remain with any body so constitut e d. Thi s Bi ll sweeps away at one blow t`,'„'' power to recover a ll sma ll d e b ts on the part of the public un l, l s each and all incorporate themselves under this i r responsib le body—the L oan F un d B oard. We thought we had enou gh of this sort of l e f t -h an d ed legislation; but it ap2eats T Howeier, we have no more l e i sure nor room this cvening,,ut"t shall return immediately to the subject. Its the meantim e , we b eg L ord Morpeth ' s attention t subject, as we understand his Lordship and the Attorney' will neral have c are o f t h e Bi ll. We hope his Lordsh i p " at least paus e i n p us hi ng so sweeping a measure throug h , he House The following is an ex t ract from the Bill for the amen--e It of the law relating to Loan, Societies in Ireland, Sec. 2 : And whereas an Act was passed in the session of Parliamate held in the sixth and seventh years of the re ign of his I t o Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled A n Ac and amend the laws relating to Loan Societies in Ireland „id whereas it is expedient that the said last.mentioned Act su e r n a be amended, and that the provisions thereof, as altered an amended amended by this Act, should be extended to all societies to to blished, or to be established, for the purpose of granting ` ct f or e to the industrious classes resident in Ireland • be it the re t be enacted, that the said last-recited Act, and all and eve r y, 0 enactments, clauses, and provisions therein contained ("I ta ll far as the same may be repealed or altered by this Act), 5 in, extend to all associations or societies already formed or no . Victoria corporated, or which may hereafter be formed or in c , c° ,• r t r a ia rated, in any part of the United Kingdom of Great P r ' o r and Irel an d, f or t h e purpose of lending, either direetec. through local or county trustees, treasurers, , managers, o, mittees or othe rw i se , money or goods to the poor or 11 ' d 0 e trious classes res id ent i n I reland; and all such Assoeis6o or or Societies as a f oresa i d, which have been already formed incorporated, but w h ose ru l es have not been certified 8 1 1 Act, rolled pursuant to the provisions of the said last-recite," Act, shall with all conven i ent speed, after the passing of rase cause their r u l es to b e so certified and enrolled • and in b - „ e ii any such As soc i at i on or Society as aforesaid, w hich has ; already formed or incorporated, shall not, at the expir et° ced s:x calendar months from the passing of this Act, have e " - ti its rules to be certified for the purpose of being enrolled , P i ; a ll suant to the provisions of the said last-recited Act,i t i s oles not be lawful for such Ass oc i a ti on or S ociety, Dr for the o tees, managers, comm i ttee, treasurer, or any officer or efebslf thereof, or fur any person or persons in the name o r on be e i r e of such Association or Society, or otherwise, to suefor. r er d • o ro or recover any money or goods which may have been thertq c l oft lent or adv ance d out of the funds or property of such 4 550 lion or Society. ca , c , _n Sat ur d ay l ast t h e members of the RoYat 4:gar demy gave their ann i versary dinner at thoir apartments in na'3f-the square, whi c h was attended by a numerous assemblage of guests ° tirst rank and tal en t, among whom were Lis Royal Highness the Doge of Sussex, the Lord Chancellor, Lord President of the Courie i er , Lord of the Treasury, Lord Privy seal, Chancellor of the E o ,, ll— e part . Secretaries of State f or the Fic.one, Foreign, C o l on i a l , an d Wa r meets; Lord Chief Justier., of the Queen's Bench and Contin ua 5 101 Mister of th e R o ll s, Vier-Chancellor, Lord Chief liaron, Attotn e ' r j of So licitor-Generals, Vied Officer in Waiting, President of the 13°3 0y. Control, Chairu s en o f the Board of Customs and East India Co n'' Governor ol the Bank, Master and Warden of Dulwich Co liege 'isO s neral C' , Anmander.in-chief, P res id ents of the Colleges of FhP.Oll, 5,:d Surgeons ; French, American, Prussian, Netherland s, woo" Belgian, Spanish, Sardinian, Neapolitan, Bavarian, Da nisb ,',,yl3 o3 ' verian, and Wirt em b erg Mi nisters; Dukes of Richmond, S uL ", el - oe, 131. 11 ' Argyll, and H am ilt on; E arls Rosebery, Cawdor Carlisle' Ripon, lington, Morley, B row l ow, G rey, Aberdeen, De Grey, )6t)cn,3 e ster , Normanton, Tarikerville, Lei ces t er; Bi s h ops of London, Wil2„ond, Lincoln, Norwich, L'andatl; Lords Bu rg h ers h , N ort h w ich, o° . 111 0 Morpeth, Stanley, Lyndhurst; Viscount Neville, Right 14° 0 11s, Lord Mayor ; Sirs R. Pe e l , J . G raham, H. Wheatley, R. H. ir° Conroy, J. Swinburne, Willoughby Gordon, U. Phillips, B. Stvel'igh)r' son, E. Cust, T. Arland, J. Flower; Messrs. A. Rutherfor d, •ibert , Murray, Ridley, Colb orne, R. Vernon, E. IL Tunno, a , J. Neeld, S. Rogers, J. Sheepshanks, 1 MorriQon J. Scatiched J. Abel Smith, J. T urner, C. Balit,, iae ' S. Cartwright, C. 113 , 111 0 - loud, H. Hall am, J . H . Green, C, W. Turner, A. Miln e , li . A. J. Mum() W. Se u'ler Scrolte, son, J. W Croker, 84e. zte, noriiJog DREADvw, ACCIDENT.--This 1. about, a quarter after ten o'clock a very distressing accident oe ev i f f ee t, an elderly man, named Charles Parnes, who resided in Russ ,11-s" the Bermondsey, it appears that the unfortunate man was casing che" Westminster n • ridge-road, when one of Wheatley's Greer,vieh the No. 71 - iA .was driven along at a reckless rate, and on the w, rou g side e :. road. Barnes endeavoured to get out of the way, and OD fieing run by the horses he clung to the traces, and the horses )..aving becou7 him governable ho vus i s dragged some distance, w l .,en his strength fa iled l e g a nd hp 1 1 11. x.tu picking him up it was found o.rat he had hill right_las- Surgi",„y 4 1 . 1 0 . 4;1,04 fractured, and, rectived 0 1 .13er severe injuries. cot , sistance was • t " ins an_, t) ; procure,l, but it was deemed necessary %% w oo him to St. Thos's HosViai, on reaching which place the , van eca giving sl,igh,t hopes or his recovery in consequence of his a . . nu, pouted ag.e ‘'sMoty), the coach and coachmau were stopped by RAILROADS y. CANALS the Pu l ' ee . o f proprietorod the Grand Junction Railway have made offers to the manufacture 3 others to carry goods between cwt., being exactly the sum charged by the Canal, the trade 1 . o ered." must be superseded if the tonnage dues are not immediately low WOrCe4ter 'Totowa I. 'ham and Liverpool at I:.Which I'HE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 7, 14.